It is quickly seeming evident that more than just an election with the kind of person-on-top shift that implies has taken place in Egypt:
Mohammed Morsi’s government will “reconsider the Camp David Accord,” the 1979 treaty declaring peace between Egypt and Israel, the newly-elected president told Iran’s state-run Fars News Agency today. Morsi was also quoted as saying that he wanted to build closer ties with Iran to “create a strategic balance” in the Middle East, the Lebanon Daily Star reports. He stressed, however, that he’d work the issues out with his Cabinet. “I will not take any decision on my own.”
Not a good sign for those who’ve believed in the Camp David Accord as at least a blueprint. Or those who didn’t want to see Iran gain yet more influence in that part of the Middle East.
Joe Gandelman is a former fulltime journalist who freelanced in India, Spain, Bangladesh and Cypress writing for publications such as the Christian Science Monitor and Newsweek. He also did radio reports from Madrid for NPR’s All Things Considered. He has worked on two U.S. newspapers and quit the news biz in 1990 to go into entertainment. He also has written for The Week and several online publications, did a column for Cagle Cartoons Syndicate and has appeared on CNN.